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TIL Emmett Till has a memorial that’s been shot up, 3 times and now has a bullet proof one installed

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mDGE TIL there is more genetic variety within Africa than the rest of the world combined. In other words, Western Europeans and East Asians are potentially more genetically similar to each other than two Africans are genetically similar to each other
DQo6J TIL that the 1948 United States Presidential Election was the first election to have primary and general election debates, with Thomas Dewey debating Harold Stassen in the GOP primary while Socialist Nominee Norman Thomas debated Socialist Workers Nominee Farrell Dobbs in the general election.
eppDD TIL that Tim Heidecker of 'Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!' was stabbed twice in the back in 2006 while trying to protect an elderly neighbor from her son, who was high on PCP at the time.
E1bOo TIL the NAACP for eighteen years flew a huge flag over its New York headquarters stating, “A Man Was Lynched Yesterday.” In the wake of the lynching of Jesse Washington.
8akLa TIL of The Existence of the “27 Club”, The cultural phenomenon when a popular musical artist, actor or athlete dies at the age of 27.